CVE-2016-5198

V8 en Google Chrome anterior a 54.0.2840.90 para Linux y 54.0.2840.85 para Android y 54.0.2840.87 para Windows y Mac incluyeron asunciones de optimización incorrectas, lo que permitió a un atacante remoto realizar operaciones de lectura/escritura arbitrarias, conduciendo a la ejecución de código, a través de una página HTML manipulada.

Multiple security vulnerabilities were discovered in Chromium. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. A heap-corruption issue was discovered in FFmpeg. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.

Google Chromium V8 Engine contains an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to perform read/write operations, leading to code execution, via a crafted HTML page. This vulnerability could affect multiple web browsers that utilize Chromium, including, but not limited to, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera.